ose in the
same neighbourhood; a large portion of the new buildings are of either
three or four storeys, but a few tall ones range from ten to sixteen. The
principal materials of which they are built are limestone, granite, marble
and bricks, and terra-cotta of various colours.

The city hall, the post-office and the court-house, standing in a row, and
each occupying a separate block along E. Fayette Street in almost the exact
centre of the city, are three of Baltimore's most imposing buildings, and
all of them narrowly escaped destruction by the great fire. The city hall,
completed in 1875, in the Renaissance style, consists of a centre structure
of four storeys surmounted by an iron dome 260 ft. high, and two connecting
wings of three storeys surmounted by a mansard roof; the entire outer
facing is of white Maryland marble. The post-office, completed in 1890, is
built of Maine granite. The court-house, completed in 1899, is of white
marble, with mural paintings by La Farge, E. H. Blashfield and C. Y.
Turner. Two of the principal library buildings--the Peabody and the Enoch
[v.03 p.0288] Pratt--are faced with white marble. Among the churches may be
mentioned the Roman Catholic cathedral, surmounted by a dome 125 ft.
high--Baltimore being the seat of a Roman Catholic archbishopric, the
highest in rank in the United States; the First Presbyterian church
(decorated Gothic), with a spire 250 ft. high; the Grace Episcopal
church--Baltimore being the seat of a Protestant Episcopal bishopric; the
First Methodist Episcopal church; and the synagogues of the Baltimore
Hebrew Congregation and the Oheb Shalom Congregation. Other notable
buildings are the custom-house, the Masonic Temple, the Maryland Clubhouse,
the Mount Royal station of the Baltimore & Ohio railway, and the buildings
of the Johns Hopkins hospital. There are several good bridges across
Jones's Falls.

On an elevated site at the intersection of Washington Place--a continuation
of N. Charles Street--with Mount Vernon Place stands a white marble
monument in honour of George Washington, the eldest of the monuments in his
honour in the United States. The corner-stone was laid in 1815 and the
monument was completed in 1829. The base is 50 ft. sq. and 24 ft. high; on
this stands a Doric column, 25 ft. in diameter at the base and 130 ft.
high, which is surmounted by a statue of Washington 16 ft. high. A winding
stairway in the interior leads to a parapet at the top. In th